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darkmans

UK/ˈdɑːkmənz/

darkmans noun: the night.

Noun

darkmans (uncountable)

  1. (UK, obsolete, thieves' cant) The night.
    • I have, by the salomon, a doxy that carries a kinchin mort in her slate at her back, besides my dell and my dainty wild dell, with all whom I'll tumble this next darkmans in the strommel […]c. 1607–1610 (date written), Thomas Middleton; Thomas Dekker, The Roaring Girle. Or Moll Cut-purse. […], London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Thomas Archer, […], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the...
    • Men were men then, and fought each other in the open field, and there was nae milling in the darkmans.1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown...
    Antonyms:
    lightmans

Examples of darkmans in a sentence

  • Ah, Bess, my covess, strike me blind if my sees don't tout your bingo muns in spite of the darkmans.1828, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], Pelham; or, The Adventures of a Gentleman. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry...
  • White thy fambles, red thy gan / And thy quarrons dainty is. / Couch a hogshead with me then. / In the darkmans clip and kiss.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 3]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC:

Antonyms of darkmans

Origin of darkmans

From dark + -mans.

Words formed from darkmans

Phrases with darkmans

Questions about darkmans

What does darkmans mean?
Darkmans means the night.
How do you use darkmans in a sentence?
Ah, Bess, my covess, strike me blind if my sees don't tout your bingo muns in spite of the darkmans.
What part of speech is darkmans?
Darkmans is a noun.
How do you pronounce darkmans?
Darkmans is pronounced /ˈdɑːkmənz/ (UK).

Words near darkmans in the dictionary

  1. darkling
  2. darkling beetle
  3. darkling beetles
  4. darklings
  5. darkly
  6. darkmans
  7. darknes
  8. darkness
  9. darknesse
  10. darknesses
  11. darknet

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